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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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305 words match “HERO”

OCHEROUS; OCHREOUS a.

Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.

To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

PALEOTHEROID n. 2 definitions

Resembling Paleotherium. -- n.

ed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

RANCHERO n. 2 definitions

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

SEMISPHEROIDAL a.

Formed like a half spheroid.

SPHEROBACTERIA n.

See the Note under Microbacteria.

A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.

An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.…

; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. Oblate spheroid, Prolate spheroid. See Oblate, Prolate, and Ellipsoid.

Having the form of a spheroid. -- Sphe*roid"al*ly, adv. Spheroidal state (Physics.), the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated su…

SPHEROIDIC; SPHEROIDICAL a.

See Spheroidal. Cheyne.

SPHEROIDICITY; SPHEROIDITY n.

The quality or state of being spheroidal.

Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.

An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.

SPHEROSIDERITE n.

Siderite occuring in spheroidal masses.

The body wall of any radiate animal.

SYNANTHEROUS a.

Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.

Resembling a beast in nature or habit; marked by animal characteristics; as, theroid idiocy.

See Theriodonta.